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a memorial to his son, Barclay, a graduate of that institution, wiio died in 1882. He gave $1UU,(JU0 to cancel the mortgage for the erection of the Y.M.C.A. building in Albany, 8:30,000 to Middle- bury college for a chair of political economy and international law, and built the annex to the Fairview Home for Friendless Children at Alba- ny, N.Y., at a cost of $00,000, besides aiding these and similar institutions financially. He was married in 1843 to Catherine Ann Rice, of Cambridge, N.Y.. who died in 1874, leaving two daughters. He died in Albany, July 13, 1897.

JEROME, David Howell, governor of Mich- igan, was born in Detroit, Mich., Nov. 17, 1839; son of Horace and Elizabeth Rose (Hart) Je- rome. His father died when he was an infant, and his mother removed to New York, and in

1834 to St. Clair county, Mich., where David was educated in the public schools. He went to Califor- nia in 1853 and en- gaged in mining, re- turning with a mod- erate fortune. He entered mercantile business in Saginaw, Mich., and in 1863, under appointment of Governor Blair, he raised the 33d Michi- gan infantry, and was made its colonel, but did not accompany the regiment to the front. He was a member of the state senate and chairman of the committee on state affairs, 1863-68; military aide to Governor Crapo, 1865- €6; a member and president of the state military board, 1865-73; a member of the committee to revise the state constitution, 1873, and a member and president of the board of Indian commis- sioners, 1875-80. He built the Saginaw and St. Louis railroad, and was president and manager of the company until it was merged into the De- troit, Lansing and Northern system. He was elected governor of Michigan as a Republican, serving 1881-83. He was appointed, in 1889, chairman of Cherokee commission, which ac- quired from the Indians over 15.500,000 acres of land for the opening of the white settlement in the Indian Territory, This was accomplished in 1893. He was a trustee of the Michigan Military academy and a member of the American Histor- ical association. He died at Watkins Glen, N.Y.. April 24, 1890.

JERVEY, Caroline Howard Gilman, author, was born in Charleston, S.C., June 1, 1833; daughter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel and Caroline

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(Howard) Gilman. In 1840 she was married to Nelson Glover, of Charleston, who died in 1841, and in 1805 she was married to Lewis Jervey. She wrote many stories and poems for the young, which were published in southern periodicals. Among her published volumes are: Vernon Grove (1859); Helen Courtenay's Promise (1806); Poems and Stoi'ies of a Mother and Daughter, in collaboration with her mother, Caroline Howard Gilman (q.v.) (1873). She died in Charleston, S.C, Jan. 39, 1877.

JERVIS, John Bloomfield, engineer, was born in Huntington, L.I., N.Y., Dec. 14, 1795; son of

Timothy and (Bloomfield) Jarvis, who with

two children removed to Rome, N.Y., in 1798, where the son attended school. His i^rofessional career began at the time the Erie canal was located, when he obtained the position of axman, and he assisted in the survey and construction of that work, 1817-25. He was assistant and chief engi- neer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal com- pany, 1825-30, and superintended the survey and construction of the Schenectady and Saratoga railroad, 1830-33. He invented and had built in England, for the Schenectady and Saratoga rail- road, in 1833, a locomotive, having the four- wheeled swiveling truck in front. This truck came into universal use on locomotives. He became chief engineer of the Chenango canal in 1833, and originated the scheme of providing artificial reservoirs to supply its summit with water. He made the surveys and estimates on the eastern section of the Erie canal for the proposed en- largement of that woi-k in 1835, and in 1830 was made engineer-in-chief of the Croton aqueduct for the supply of New York city. He also engineered the Croton dam, the Sing Sing aqueduct bridge, the high bridge over Harlem river, and the res- ervoir at 42d street, New York city. He was con- sulting engineer of the Cochituate water works in Boston, Mass., 1846-48; consulting tngineerof the Hudson River railroad, 1847-50; of the Michi- gan Southern and Northern Indiana railroad, 1850; engineer of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad in 1851-, and was made its president in 1854. He was engaged on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad in 1866, and retired from active service in 1868. He was the unsuccessful Dem- ocratic candidate for state engineer in 1855, and he was elected an honorary member of the American Society' of Civil Engineers in 1868. Hamilton college conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1878. He was married first to a daughter of George Brayton of Western, N.Y., who died May 14, 1839, and secondly to Eliza R. Coates, who survived him nine years and died in May, 1894, both wives being childless. In 1850 Mr. Jervis came into possession of a lot of land in Rome, N.Y,, owned by his grandfather, John W,